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Declare independence! Don't let them do that to you!!

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Gamers In the Midst 

Gamers In The Midst



Cripsin Glover Week continues with his first appearance on the David Letterman Show. (YouTube)

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Your Main Man B 

Your Main Man B


Loca Meets Crispin Glover (YouTube weirdness)

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Better Than Coors 

Better Than Coors

As much as I hated this coconut water, I'd rather walk around with a Coco IV than take a sip of that awful, awful Coors Light.

What Is It? (The trailer, on YouTube)

Monday, September 25, 2006

Not Without My GOYA 

Not Without My GOYA


What It Is and How It Is Done by Crispin Hellion Glover (You Tube)

Sunday, September 24, 2006

No GOYA, NO!!! 

No GOYA, No!!!

Crispin Hellion Glover: Clowny Clown Clown (You Tube)

Saturday, September 23, 2006

Everybody Loves Clemente 

Everybody Loves Clemente


300 teaser trailerFrank Miller's newest movie has a trailer! (YouTube)

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Done Days 

Done Days

And I Was Looking At Me


Judge Voids Bush Policy on National Forest Roads (New York Times)

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Looking For the Same Thing 

Looking For the Same Thing

Still Searching




One murderous hophead taken into custody every forty seconds. Sleep tight America.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Making the Right Choices 

Making the Right Choices





Eat shit and buy. (Tom Maxwell on consumerism.)

Monday, September 18, 2006

Fantastic Voyage 

Fantastic Voyage

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Painless Exit 

Painless Exit







Propriception (Wikipedia)

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Expendable Minutes 

Expendable Minutes




Get this: new data indicates that severe headache sufferers can finally find relief in the form certain tryptamine delivery agents!

Thursday, September 14, 2006

The Venerable Flautist 

The Venerable Flautist, One

The Venerable Flautist, Two





Suburbanites Sans Bookends (YouTube)

Sells Like Hot Cakes 

"Hot cakes cooked in bear grease or pork lard were popular from the earliest times in America. First made of cornmeal, the griddle cakes or pancakes were of course best when served piping hot and were often sold at church benefits, fairs, and other functions. So popular were they that by the beginning of the 19th century 'to sell like hot cakes' was a familiar expression for anything that sold very quickly effortlessly, and in quantity." From "Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins" by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997)

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Tree Fan 

Tree Fan




President Bush uses Little Richard as translator! (Daily Show on You Tube)

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Ten Until 

Ten Until




Ten Major Stories the US Media isnt Giving Proper Attention

Monday, September 11, 2006

Complementary Shoeshine 

Complementary Shoeshine

Half of US prisoners suffer from mental illness. Damn.

Sunday, September 10, 2006

My Troubles Will Be Few 

My Troubles Will Be Few

Saturday, September 09, 2006

The Transition To Our Time Frame 

The Transition To Our Time Frame
These strange things happen all the time.

I saw Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia again last night. It's probably only been a year since I've seen it last, but it hit me as hard sitting on Rachael's couch with a glass of wine in me as it did sitting next to my mother in a theater in Union Square, NYC seven years earlier. Some experiences mark you and the time theyre in. You look back to the experience and suddenly those same emotions are running through you, as if a river of thought and being were engulfing you. Connecting every moment in your life as if it were all part of the same ocean. Music is like that. Movies are like that too. Last night, Magnolia took me to a troubled junior year of high school, a harrowing, wondrous, monstrous 1999. And as it did oh so long ago, by the end of the film, I felt as if every atom in my body heaved a deep cathartic sigh. It's a truly moving film. And so goddamn well shot! I look at it now, and I see just how much it's influenced me as an appreciator of film and a photographer. Siiigh...

Don't think however that everyone love's P.T. Anderson's three hour opus. This is what filmmaker Kevn Smith had to say to a forum poster on his View Askew website, responding to how the poster had seen it three times thus far: "You poor, poor man. They sent me an Academy screener DVD this week. I'll never watch it again, but I will keep it. I'll keep it right on my desk, as a constant reminder that a bloated sense of self-importance is the most unattractive quality in a person or their work." Sometimes Kevin, the bravado and pomp is just what the doctor ordered. Sometimes the parade floats really do need to be that big, go that high.

In any case, the end of the film ends with this brilliant (Oh no, the 'B' word!) slow zoom in. Claudia, is sitting on her bed, she's been crying for what seems like hours, having just been reunited with her mother only an hour after she went out and subsequently ran out of her first date with Jim, the LAPD officer she met earlier that day. She ran out because she was terrified that once the newness wore off he would hate her. That he would learn details of her life and recoil in horror. Anyway, Claudia is sitting there as Jim walks in, it's the morning after she left him at the restaurant, some hushed piano notes roll over the scene starting Aimee Mann's 'Save Me'. The song is soft, but Jim's speech is even softer. We are not really supposed to make out the entirety of his deliverance, but his tone and the few words we hear, here and there are enough to give us an indication of what he's saying. We can't see his face, heck we barely see him at all, the camera is completely on Claudia, and yet we know that he's gushing. Laying it all down, pouring out the love that every character in the film so desperately needs. And we can't even hear it! Well, I found the text of what he said last night, and a wave of goose bumps rolled up my back as I read it, it's just so damned bril- beautiful. Okay, without further ado, the final lines of Magnolia....

Jim Kurring: [to Claudia] I can't let this go. I can't let you go. Now, you... you listen to me now. You're a good person. You're a good and beautiful person and I won't let you walk out on me. And I won't let you say those things - those things about how stupid you are and this and that. I won't stand for that. You want to be with me... then you be with me. You see?
[Claudia smiles]

Magnolia, Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999: 5 Stars

There Is No Hell, Like An Old Hell 

There Is No Hell, Like An Old Hell


McSweeney's : Three New Mac Ad Ideas

Friday, September 08, 2006

Time For Medicine! 

Time For Medicine



Of the Clan Wess



Rob For a Moment

Buy your very own Pee Wee Herman Sneakers!

Thursday, September 07, 2006

Tradition Engine 

Tradition Engine


Mice don't like cheese!

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

No Smoking Saloon 

No Smoking Saloon




StarWars.com has an insanely in depth side by side slideshow of all the visual changes the first film has gone through in the past few decades. Some of these shifts are really fascinating and offer clear insight into what it's like to 'perfect' a moving image. Check it!

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Chameleon Girl's Origin Story --or-- BIG TOBACCO IS TRYING TO EFFING KILL YOU 

Chameleon Girl's Origin Story







What's that you say?? The Tobacco companies have been upping the nicotine levels in cigarettes since 1998?! Why, that almost sounds.... evil. Illegal even! But just the other day I received a special message to me from my 'friends at Philip Morris' via the TV, telling me how they wanted to help with cigarette addiction.
Waaaait a second!
Are you calling my friends liars? Well are ya? Cause Phil wouldn't play me like that.
Seriously though, how the HELL are cigarettes still legal? Your local pothead knows what's in his Ziploc, even your neighborhood drunk vomits with brand-confidence. If youre addicted to cigarettes and think it's just a weakness within you that compels you to spiral further into the maelstrom, take heart in knowing, your friends at Big Tobacco are working hard to take some of the responsibility off your shoulders.

Monday, September 04, 2006

No! Mind Your Own Business! 

Mind Your Own Business!


Say gang, if you're into snap-snap-snapping away on yer digital like I am, then you'll likely dig this digital photography and light technique compendium. If you don't, you are likely some sort of skinhead fascist who hates turtles and bubble-wrap. Not that I'm judging you.

Cocoon by Bjork 

I really love this womans style.

So Long, Steve 

Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin Killed

Sunday, September 03, 2006

Tough-Guy Poet 

Tough-Guy Poet


Handy Dandy Photoshop Toolbox Reference Sheet!

Saturday, September 02, 2006

My Silver Blood 

My Silver Blood



The Tiger Lillies "Bully Boys" Live

Friday, September 01, 2006

Unconcious, Sort Of 

Unconcious, Sort Of



MPAA critical documentary recieves a curious NC-17 rating.